LA CROISÉE DES CHEMINS — Jean-Claude Brisseau
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A film by Jean-Claude Brisseau
RESTORED VERSION
1975 | 91 minutes | fiction | colour
With Lisa Garcia, Laurence Boisloret, Lucien Plazanet, Jean-Claude Brisseau, Josée van Hoorn, Bernard van Hoorn
publisher: La Traverse
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In revolt against her family environment, a young girl who feels unloved by her family prefers suicide to a life she feels unable to live.
"This is the first feature film directed by Jean-Claude Brisseau. It was made in 1975 on Super 8 film. It's an indication of the extent to which, very early on, filmmaking was more than a simple obsession for Brisseau - it was an imperative, a pure necessity. Here, the extreme sobriety of the means not only does not prevent the filmmaker from attempting to reach the highest heights of metaphysics, but contributes to it without the slightest paradox. Poverty is, in fact, the pure vehicle of a kind of grace as much as of an extreme, fatal melancholy. The film's title refers to the journey of its main character, a schoolgirl caught up in revolt, desire and death. The slow, subtle impregnation of the supernatural is the most literal expression of this Nietzschean inversion: ‘When you look into the abyss, the abyss looks into you’, a statement that Brisseau strips of any merely metaphorical value and takes literally. A masterpiece." Jean-François Rauger
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Film restored in 2K by the Audiovisual Archives of Monaco and the Cinémathèque française from Super 8 prints with magnetic sound tracks entrusted by the filmmaker and kept at the Cinémathèque française.
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— Jean-Claude Brisseau, interview with Olivier Père
